Chapter 100: Re-entry into the Forbidden Zone (2)
After separating from the team, Xu Fengshi, accompanied by Ma Guo, went down the small high ground and walked to the convoy parked under a row of big trees responsible for transporting the "keys".
Before they could get to the dart masters, Xu Fengshi and Ma Guo heard a whining.
"Boss, why does the snake in this forbidden area look so strange, not only can it glide in the air, but it also jumps so high that it can't be driven away even if you light the incense of chasing beasts."
"In the future, follow us to take a few more darts to know, this is not your hometown in the Northern Rainforest Continent, there are strange snakes and monsters, not to mention that this is still a forbidden area."
Seeing Ma Guo coming over, the dart masters who were originally chatting stopped talking and quickly stood up straight.
"Master, Deacon Xu, you're here!"
The leading dart master hurriedly trampled the colorful snake head that was split in two by the short knife under his feet, and greeted Ma Guo and Xu Fengshi with a smile.
Ma Guo nodded, glanced at the neatly lined carriages, waved his hand, and shouted in a low voice: "Get on the car, pull to the third entrance!" ”
"Alright sir, guys, get in the car!"
Xu Fengshi followed the dart masters to get into the car, and the convoy that had been separated from each other started again, turned around, and walked towards a small waterhole shaped like a quarter moon in the southeast.
After arriving at the waterhole, Ma Guo jumped out of the carriage first, walked in front, and led everyone to a large rock, his steps were quite powerful, and his face was cold and indifferent.
Xu Fengshi stood in front of the stone, looked at the lake in the waterhole in a daze, and soon, he sighed lightly, as if he had made up some kind of determination, turned his head, and said to Ma Guo: "Old Ma, is the place of trading here, why don't you see the person on the other side?" ”
"Don't worry, there's still a little way to go." Ma Guo said, picking up a long strip of stone from the lake's beach with ease and striking it three times vigorously in a small dark yellow area on the large rock.
He turned, slowly cleared his throat, and said to his companion behind him, "Send the key in." ”
As Ma Guo spoke, the big stone let out a low trembling sound, and then, as if by juggling, the stone suddenly arched slightly against a small patch of sand below the side of the riverbank, and then, the wet sand quickly dispersed like quicksand, and an arched lid that appeared to be made of bronze showed its head.
There was another dull thud, and the seemingly heavy arched lid flexibly and automatically parted, revealing a dark passageway.
Xu Fengshi was so shocked that his mouth grew up, this was the first time he went to the forbidden area to meet with the "collaborator", so naturally he didn't know that it was such a charter, he looked at Ma Guo, and asked in disbelief: "Old Ma, this is ...... Underground passages? Could it be ...... This secret passage and the one we saw last time we came to the forbidden area were dug by those who worked with our Chamber of Commerce? ”
Ma Guo nodded, without explaining too much.
Xu Fengshi couldn't help but squint his eyes, he suddenly thought that the last time he came here with Shi Cheng and the others, after discovering the underground secret passage, Ma Guo's face was obviously much calmer than that of others, at that time Xu Fengshi thought that it was caused by Ma Guo's indifferent personality, but now that he thinks about it, the real reason is that he has long known that there will be exquisitely designed secret passages here.
Xu Fengshi couldn't help but feel a little guilty in his heart, it seems that his boss did not inform him, the nominal person in charge, of all the details of the forbidden area treasure hunting plan, now that he thinks about it, in addition to Ma Guo, Yang Qingwen may also be partially aware of the means arranged by those collaborators in the forbidden area.
Ma Guo gestured to his men and shouted, "Take those little brown ghosts in the car down and get down from here!" ”
The dart masters answered in unison, and then ran back to the carriage, opened the sealed carriage, and dragged the "keys" loaded inside, and the children who were pulled out of the carriage were children about ten years old.
The children's hands were tied sturdily, their eyes were wrapped in a thick black cloth, and their mouths were gagged with strips. A total of 65 children were brought by the Fruit Wood Chamber of Commerce, most of whom were local rainforest children, and a very small number were fair-skinned Hanyue people.
Each of the dart masters was in charge of carrying three or even four children, driving them like shepherds to the entrance of the secret passage, and a few of the more stocky children wanted to shake their bodies to resist, but they seemed to have been drugged with some kind of medicine, and their whole bodies were as soft as noodles, and they could not exert any strength.
Ma Guo fiddled with a mechanism at the entrance of the secret passage a few times, lowered a slide, and then he stood aside and watched coldly as his men sent the children into the secret passage. The dart masters dragged the children to the entrance of the secret passage, and then threw the children one by one on the slide as if they were throwing garbage into the ash pit, and after hearing the dull sound of landing below, the dart master followed closely behind, sat on the slide, and slid into the secret passage.
Xu Fengshi stood aside, and couldn't help but tighten his shirt, obviously in the hot and humid North Rainforest Continent, but at this moment, he couldn't help but get a layer of cold sweat on his back.
Xu Fengshi is not married, but there is a cousin who has just turned nine years old and is very close to him, looking at the childish children who are being rudely escorted by the dart masters in front of him, he always involuntarily remembers the scene of his younger brother coming to his arms with a smile when he returns home on Mother's Day.
"Alas......" Xu Fengshi sighed secretly, "It's just that you are born in the wrong place in this life, and your life is not good......"
Bang dang!
There was a loud bang in the passage, followed by an angry curse and the frightened whining of a group of children.
"What's going on?" Ma Guo, who was standing outside the tunnel, looked a little ugly.
"Master, this ladder suddenly broke, I think it is often soaked in water, and it is not strong." A grumbling voice could be heard from below.
"Has anyone had an accident?" Ma Guo asked with a frown.
"No one had an accident, but it seems that a little brown ghost has died, and his head has been smashed by the falling iron plate!"
Ma Guo cursed in his heart, but when he thought that he had anticipated this unexpected situation in advance before leaving, so he brought a few more children over in case of emergency, and his heart was relieved again.
Ma Guo hurriedly walked to the mechanism at the entrance of the secret passage, twisted another rocker, put down the spare slide, and after doing all this, he shouted to his subordinates, "Be quick with your hands and feet, the people below stand farther away, drag the 'keys' out, don't stand under the ladder so dryly!" ”
Everyone was busy again at the entrance of the secret passage, and after a while, all the children were sent to the secret passage, Ma Guo glanced around vigilantly, and after Xu Fengshi and the other dart masters successfully landed, he also shortened and jumped directly into the secret passage.
After Ma Guo's figure disappeared, the arched roof closed again, and the originally scattered mud and sand magically regathered on the top of the roof under the traction of some force, and the whole sand returned to normal, and there was no sign that a "giant mouth" had opened here.